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Sunday, May 9, 2010

MINICONCEPTDOC #26: STROLL

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Well, it's official. I am halfway done my target number of MINICONCEPTDOCS. I want six months worth. At two a week, that's 52 minidocs. One for every week of the year. And all combined, they should be a feature length DVD.

That puts the finish line on about August 8th for the final doc.

For today's MCD, STROLL, luck was my friend. I was on my way to the mall and I happened upon quite a site. I was not the only passerby struck by the happening and people with cell phones in hand clamored to capture the event.

My favorite moments in the film are when the parents, who are trying to protect their young are bobbing their heads and hissing. Sometimes it cues up so perfectly it almost seems like they're dancing to the music, which is perfectly crafted by Theo Langason. I don't think a better tune could be coupled with the film.

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Robert A. Emmons Jr. is a digital documentary filmmaker. His films include Enthusiast, Wolf at the Door, YARDSALE!, Goodwill, and De Luxe. Goodwill screened as part of the Smithsonian exhibition: Our Journeys/Our Stories: Portraits of Latino Achievement at the NJ Historical Society and won Best Homegrown Documentary at the 2008 Garden State Film Festival. In 2009 he received Mexico’s Lindbergh-Carranza International Goodwill Award as a Messenger of Peace for his work on Goodwill. From Feb. to Aug. of 2010 Emmons created two short docs a week. The 52 short docs formed the weekly internet series MINICONCEPTDOCS. His scholarly work focuses on media, documentary, and comic books and includes Who's Responsible Here? Media, Audience, and Ethics (Cognella 2009), The Encyclopedia of Documentary Film (Routledge, 2005), Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools (Univ. of Minn. 2007), and The Encyclopedia of Latino and Latina History (Facts on File, TBP). Emmons teaches media courses at Rutgers University-Camden where he is also the Associate Director of the Honors College. He is currently working on a new documentary about Fredric Wertham and comics in the 50’s called Diagram for Delinquents.